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  1. Payroll will go away at some point but if you don’t have payroll you are probably ok. Or if you don’t mind recording payroll from another service in QBD. I would recommend getting the most recent version of QBD.
  2. QuickBooks Online payroll is a garbage product or at least it was a garbage project last I used it. At that time, it would not reliably integrate with QBO or allow staffing allocations to be done seamlessly. I saw the writing on the wall for QBs desktop and switched the last of my clients to QBO in 2018. I have found it does almost everything I want + somethings that QB Desktop never did very well. I don’t use QB for payroll though, I use Gusto for all my clients. Hating on QBO is a little hobby for most bookkeepers but I have found it to be much better than a lot of people think. There are lower cost payroll options. There are also bookkeeping systems that are more intuitive than QBO- FreshBooks and Xero get good reviews. One of my larger clients switched to Aplos and it’s great. I wouldn’t necessarily expect to use the same system for both payroll and bookkeeping though.
  3. I dislike when I have to dig for service times. I like to see the times for the services (or a button to see them) easily displayed on the home page, in both the desktop and mobile versions of the site. Also it’s nice to see any current ministries and volunteer opportunities with up to date contact information or the ability to register to volunteer on the site.
  4. Text but I prefer it be a bulk text over a group text mostly because I don’t want to get everyone else’s “I can’t be bothered to read” questions.
  5. Pie- blueberry and lemon are the most requested. Other recipes I get asked for: Mac and Cheese Chicken and Rice (Perlo) Green chili
  6. This work would also pay a lot more than the $13/hr you will get at the grocery store. Just something to think about. The family would be lucky to have you. The only potential wrinkle is that most would want you after 3:30.
  7. I would say they shrink a bit and they are pretty boxy/large.
  8. We get shirts from $6 shirts and people wear whatever Christmas-y or solid colored pajama pants then want. If you buy a certain number of shirts (10?) there’s a discount. The shirts can then be worn other nights to bed or even during the day. https://6dollarshirts.com
  9. Christmas Eve and Easter Vigil are great times in the Catholic Church but to spread it out a bit, Ash Wednesday in the Catholic Church is interesting. It’s roughly 6 weeks before Easter. The week before Easter is Palm Sunday which involves a procession. There are also different kinds of Catholic Churches. A Spanish, Vietnamese or Polish language mass is an interesting cultural experience. 12/12, there’s a feast for Our Lady of Guadalupe and while most churches will mark it, Spanish language masses often have really interesting traditions around it. We go often to a Dominican parish and they have a very beautiful liturgical tradition. All that said, there’s nothing like the Christmas Eve midnight mass at the Cathedral. It’s also the one season of the year that the music tends to be consistently good.
  10. I’m in a pretty laid back position right now that is 100% WFH with the ability to mostly get my work on my own schedule. I got really lucky on that front. This afternoon, I have a meeting at 1pm and he’s able to work independently while I have set work things. My basic idea is to get most of my work done early AM, the times that he’s out of the house for classes and extracurriculars and then wrap any loose ends up evenings and weekends. Not ideal but I have a salaried position that I can cover all the important stuff in 6ish hours a day. If I need to cut back, I can. My husband works 6AM- 3PM he can usually be the one handling afternoon activities and sports transportation until the kid can start driving himself in a year. XC is over for the season and crew start in January. That’s usually 3 hours every weekday afternoon.
  11. We are really fortunate that state law here protects part time enrollment for homeschooling and private school students. The student’s local public school has to allow them to participate in single classes and/or extracurriculars. If the student is a high school athlete, grades or progress reports need to be supplied to the athletic association (preventing academically ineligible student athletes from circumventing eligibility requirements) but other than that, there’s no special requirements.
  12. Is it possible that your mom or your unsafe aunt blocked you and not grandma? My dad had an invasive friend who would block his families numbers.
  13. So, I homeschooled my older son 2nd-8th with some time at home in high school and my younger son K-5. Older son graduated from high school in 2022, took a gap year to work and used that money to travel in the summer and then started college at a state university this quarter. Younger son started high school this year (9th grade, 14 yo) and the first quarter has been really challenging. He’s exhausted by the long day, the social situation is challenging with some bullying and he’s been pretty miserable. He’s on the spectrum but even with a very robust IEP, the school just isn’t working well for him. Talking to him and thinking about what has worked best for him, we’ve decided to do a hybrid approach with him homeschooling for most academic classes moving forwards. He is going to continue to go to the high school for Spanish, Choir and access their after school sports in the Fall and Spring seasons. The only things he has liked about school so far are Choir, Model UN and Cross Country. So here I am, back at it, after thinking I was retired from homeschooling.
  14. Most of the mid century homes around here seem to have the washer and dryer in either the kitchen, a closet or hall off of the kitchen or the garage. Houses that are older than that but haven’t had a full remodel tend to have them in the basements or occasionally, on a screened in porch. It’s only houses built fairly recently that have a laundry room away from the kitchen, garage or basement. If I used drying racks for everything inside, there would be little way to navigate the apartment (small space, 5 people) so I definitely appreciate having a dryer. As it is, we shimmy around the sweaters and similar drying. We are in an apartment and the W/D hookups are in a hall closet around the corner from the kitchen.
  15. I’m a spring. I remember this book was all the rage in the late 80s/early 90s.
  16. Going cold turkey on caffeine is no joke. I recommend caffeine pills.
  17. Congrats to your eldest! Enjoy your day of pampering/prep. 💜
  18. I didn’t “capitulate” (literally never worn makeup to work and didn’t wear anything more than lipgloss and mascara for my wedding) and honestly, I do think it impacted my career arc. I’m ok with that and I’m at a point in my career where people who are hiring me don’t care. Still, I honestly don’t know that it was the right decision for me. Lots of reasons why I didn’t wear it and I don’t really know how to start wearing it now so I’m unlikely to change this.
  19. I’m in Seattle, I used to see them a fair bit. Not so much anymore. like others, I think a lot of people have moved over to other brands of barefoot type shoes.
  20. If you aren’t using it and it isn’t functioning as a communication tool for you, delete the accounts and don’t look back.
  21. Both of our sons had people tell them there wasn’t a Santa and both were totally nonplussed but it. They just didn’t stop believing until they were ready. I never believed in anything when I was a kid due to extreme poverty and honestly, I consider giving my sons the security and stability to be childlike/have intense flights of fancy when they were young to be one of the main accomplishments of my life. My younger son used to weave complex tales about all sorts of things he made up and it was lovely. I remember when he was about 5 or 6 we got home and he turned the handle of the door and opened it very slightly, then he listened before opening the door all the way. I asked what he was doing and he said he was giving the tiny people who live behind our paintings time to get back behind the paintings since he always figured they came out to use the stuff in the house when we left them alone. He also had a long list of made up “helper creatures” and when faced with a challenge, he’d wonder aloud which helper creature would be best suited to come to his aid. Each creature was assigned a set of skills. One was his helper for making chocolate chip cookies, another was for when he was mad, another for when he needed to clean up his room. Obviously kids can have flights of fancy even if they don’t believe in Santa etc but for my sons, it all kind of ran together. My older son never really believed in anything besides Santa but he had a big imagination about Santa and a number of personal stories.
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